The most interesting aspect of Duncan's essay for this outlander was his
way of describing the affect & effect of reading the new post-75 poetry,
with its eschewal of the aesthetics of the "ethical self" or testimony.
From now on the poem must be a pleasurable autonomous object - its
multiplex virtuality a combination of aesthetic freedom & sophisticated
"knowingness" - more frantic than relaxed, however, in its creation of
new sites for "wow!" intellection. I think Duncan describes this
affect of the new poetry well.
The ethics of a hermetic, autonomous play-sphere poetics, however,
may yet impinge upon these current styles... as a consequence...
just as Duncan's "mathematics-based" economy does in a parallel
sphere.
Henry
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